Heh, I just heard about this myself. Seems Sony BGM are released G1 Season 1 shortly. Murphy's Law, it'll be a better quality version than the Rhino ones (no added sound effects, the proper animation reels not the incomplete ones from before, etc)

The extras on there sound really good. I've got two versions of the movie already, but if I have the money, I'll get it for all those extras. The commentary could be very interesting to hear.

What's this like? Does it have any full-render tests, or just behind the scenes type stuff?

- G1 Series Trailer (announcing a Sony release of G1 on DVD in 2007!)

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My wallet is already screaming. Those magnificent bastards. Say what you will about Sony, but they've got the money to do a cleanup job like nobody else.

- Full Screen Version (cropped from 16x9 presentation)

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Now, I've been trying to figure this out ever since I first heard about it. The Rhino release was the "full screen" right? The theatrical version was cropped from that full screen, correct? Then the full screen version on THIS DVD set will be cropped again from the theatrical version? I mean, that seems extremely odd to me if that's the case. Why didn't they put the cleanup effort into the full screen version, and THEN do the cropping for the theatrical version?

Ah well, I'll probably watch them both anyways, and keep my Rhino copy around for when I want to see the whole shot.

Awesomeness. This is the type of stuff I live for even on crappy movies I don't care about. Transformers test and deleted footage? I'm feeling kinda woozy with glee.

- Us and Japanese Toy Commercials

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YES! Please tell me the original Jetfire commercial is in there somewhere. Though I suppose not since they probably no longer have the rights to show ANY likeness of that mold.

- DVD-Rom links to exclusive content

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Oh, please, PLEASE tell me this isn't another one of those DVDs that the first time you stick it in your computer it instantly loads up it's own special player. I swear I've got about fourteen different DVD players installed on my computer, and only two of them were installed by me. The worst offenders were the Matrix special editions.

The 2007 movie sneak peak is similar to the Botcon one. No robots ( a quick glimpse of a computer screen showing robots in wire-frame, but it's super fast and blurry), lots of explosions, some talking from Speilberg and Bay. It was cool, but nothing earth shattering.